Category: Bibliography
******* How Trump pushed Silicon Valley off the rails
How Trump pushed Silicon Valley off the rails
Did tech titans have an option? I thought so.
https://wapo.st/48wjKli
Maybe so, but it was not an unimaginable consequence. French philosopher Paul Virilio has a quote I think about a lot: “When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution. Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.”
The Moneyball Theory of Presidential Social Media
Not even the president can bend the internet to his will.
*** NYTimes.com: The Cure for What Ails Our Democracy
The Cure for What Ails Our Democracy
We have to get past the idea that political conflicts are fights between good and evil.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/opinion/democracy-good-evil.html?smid=em-share
Ukraine and its allies face off against America’s tribal politics
[The Washington Post]
NYTimes: The World Feels the Trump Touch
**** [The Washington Post] Three crises that give Biden a chance to prove the doubters wrong
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/14/ignatius-gaza-ukraine-border-biden-age/
NYTimes.com: What a Split in Consumer Confidence Means for Biden
What a Split in Consumer Confidence Means for Biden
Americans voters don’t think the economy stinks, actually.
NYTimes.com: I’m a Neuroscientist. We’re Thinking About Biden’s Memory and Age in the Wrong Way.
I’m a Neuroscientist. We’re Thinking About Biden’s Memory and Age in the Wrong Way.
We are due for a national conversation, informed by science and not politics, about what we should expect in terms of the cognitive and emotional health of our leaders.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/opinion/neuroscientist-on-biden-age-memory.html?smid=em-share